The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 8

.NO. 16,180. CITY LIGHTING OWNERSHIP. Commissioner Monroo’s report on city lighting, in while asking for power to reject the bids of the @As and electric companies for the current year, he i ar oe & recommendation of municipal ownership, is ‘ most important official document presented by any | Member of the Reform Administration. In the clreum- stances, following as it does #0 closely upon The Even- | ing World's exposure of overcharges and extortion by the Ges Trust, it foreshadows one of the greatest tri- mmphs ever won by public opinion voicing itself through @ newspaper. ‘The report, in offect, serves official notice on the light- ' , ing companies that their gross overcharges on the city | ‘q@iist end; and at the same time it carries with it this More important mandate: Either the companies must mocept the alternative of lower charges against the’ in- dividual consumer and a just accounting with him or Prepare for public ownership of all the lighting utilities. What is found desirable by the city in tts corporate W@apacity in effecting a cheapening of prices for light will ‘Be e@pecdily found even niore desirable for the commu- Mmity of private consumers. And such a discovery means “thé immediate ond of a monopoly’a long and too pa- ‘Mently endured extortions. Engineer Lacombe's figures show the perfect feast- Pility of building a city, lighting plant cheaply and ‘Maintaining it profitably. ‘he experience of Chicago has been wholly satisfac- ‘Rory, and is worth citation as an example. It costs that itty only $53.51 to produce » 2,000-candie power arc Might. As Mr. Lacombe points out, “if this cost were {doubled the price would still be nearly $40 per lamp the price” of $146, which New York pays. In i the cost of the plant per light operated was , including subway construction. | Bven at that figure three years of use would find New York's plant paid for. But this city would have _ }the further and very great advantage of extensive sub- _|qways already constructed. It has also the power of ‘pompelling the extension of electrical conduits by the ‘subway company. The city is thus in a Position, as _ |My. Lacombe says, ‘where it can build a plant cheaply because of free conduits, and even with light operating ‘expenses still keep the price per light far below the prices paid at present.” It is an attractive plan and one to be advocated as more promising than legislative measures for the city’s relief from the long-continued oppression of a most ob- dectionable monopoly. F THE STREET-CAR PROBLEM. Chief Engineer Parsons predicted that the subway fwhen completed would relleve the congestion of surface traMic for perhaps two days; Mr. Vreeland now puts’the Derlod of relief at one day. In his Judson Memorial address the President of the Interurban Street Railway Company indulged in his cus- ‘tomary dazzling juggle of figures showing the great @rowth of street-car traMe and asked over again his favorite question, What are you going to do about it? Tt is a question aaled without any accompanying sugges- _ tion of a remedy. He showed that in New York 80,000 more persons use Surface transit per day than a year ago, and that car nc- — €ommodations must be provided daily for 2,000,000 pas- ®Sengers in the greater city and for 50 per cent. of the Tesidents of nearby citics, After the theatre, between ‘Fourteenth and Firty-fitth streets his road is called on to transport 60,000 persons at the same moment. Within ‘even years, he prophesies, the surface lines In Manhat- tan and the Bronx will be required to transport one thou- Sand millions of passengers a year! Tho figures stun; what is the city going to do about it? It 1s a vexed question calling for the serious cons!d- @ration not only of the street-car experts solicitous of mccommodating these vast cargoes of passengers for the @ompany’s financial gain, but also calling for the employ- Ment by the city of the ablest advice procurable to de- wWiso some provision for the hordes yet to come. With _ @very month that passcs the problem grows less easy of @olution. If it 1a not to be left as an unwelcome legacy to the next administration it is time definite action were taken. > Meantime the public would like to see more vigorous Measures adopted by the company for temporary relief. “Where has been no improvement at Thirty-fourth street, ywhere time is still lost by the double crossing and life endangered. No attempt has been made to develop the : Beventh avenue line; empty cars running only to Forty- a ene street still alternate with indecently crowded cars, Various minor provisions for relief by transfers remain ‘Bnadopted. -* Gannot Mr. Vreeland, in that “consulting capacity in ) which half the railroads of the world” employ him, apply bis superior intelligence to the development of the detalls )) Of relief here indicatee? To do so would be to merit a Tatitude from the community which tt now withholds m him in his chosen role of confessing his incompe- ge to better the existing conditions. THE NEW YORK POLICEMAN. ) They change their skies but not their minds who oes the sea, Tere ts Piper back from England and, Just Fotgh his laudation of the British policeman, rebuking } Diizaheth strect station patrolman for expectorating. he school of etiquette Is once more in session, eity has read Col, Piper's reasons for regarding London officer as superior, and given them due con- Hon; yet it is not wholly convinced, Doubtless, as , When the London “‘bobby's” club is raised traf- and 4 lifted finger commands obedience, It ‘that he has a deafer car for temptations; he own so much rea! estate. Possibly the oppor- for orruption does not offer so frequently as to rican brother officer, ) when fire lines are to be drawn, rescued from accident or catastrophe, d and the peace kept in a great city, a REPAAADAIDADADL DEE PAEODPEDPEEDPE ODED ERODE REP EEE EL EE EEE EDDA OEE ODOO RR ODE RE REE MEEEEOEORDAD LED OER ODED EE TH PEPER EE DEER ERE © SWELL SAM RECEIVES A WELC TEOS SSP Ser Khe eee Vho is it, pat Pa Johnsing—Only dem boys. time dey done fool me. POSGPGFS DOSED OFETSS 9G SF9F9S95 FH 2% | THE OLD JOKES’ HOME, By Roy L. McCardell. HE above ploture hardly does the 8. P. C. H. badges justice. They are handsomely embossed in four colors, ‘Those desiring badges must inclose a two-cent stamp. Address Prof, Josh M. A. Long, the Old Jokes’ Home. EGINNING next Friday, we will have a weekly report from Old Doctor Lemonosky to the death-rate In the Old Jokes’ Home, the physical and mental condition. of those who survive our system of kindly re- straint, the chances of recovery of those in a grave condition, temperature, pulse, respiration, &c. A word to officera of the 8 and those about to becom Our facliltles are already overtaxed. Do not ari Jokes simply on suspicion; be sure they are old and feeble before taking them into custody, Do not try to get too many in the blue ambulance at one time. ‘Phe merciful old-joke- catcher must be merciful to the old cheatnut horse, To those who write for a badge ‘that they may become officers of the 8. P. C. H., we respectfully request that they dp not send in old jokes at the same time. Wait untli you are an of- cer. But become stamp for a bi ambulance busy! P. Cc. H., an oMcer. Send In a fe and keep the blue Arrivals Yesterda: From Up the Hudson. Prot. Jovh M. A. Along: ‘When 1s a lawyer like a donkey? When he is drawing a conveyance, When is he unlike a donkey? know. “Why are your cheeks like a span of| 4 Don't horses, Moll “Because the waggin’ tong Why is a lawyer sleeper? He lies first on one side and then on the other, What rose 1s born to blush unseen Negroes. When are stockings ke dead men? When they are men-ded; when their soles are departed; when they holes; when they are past heoling they are no longer on their last legs, When is @ noregay a fish? When It ts smelt is one each aide of a should fyee seats at churoh b abolished? Because they make people good for nothin’, +H, CLINTON GAVEY, Grandyiew-on-Hudson, Nvought in by a Badge Beaver, Prof, Jou M, A. Long “The strongest men in the world are out we “Wow 60 Don't they hold up trains?” “There was a terrible murder In the hotel to-da “Was there?” Yes; a paper hanger hung a border.” “It must have been a put-up sob." WILLIAM ZWERMAN, 120 Hast One Hundred and Sixteenth st, Ominous Signs, Prof, Josh M. A, Long While walking along Broadway I was confronted by a sign in bly display let tera as Dllows: ‘Please take the other door.” 1 did and the copper on post acrested me, On the next book I was confronted by another sign, ap follows: "Bhi blackened inside." 1B ROBINSOD No, 804 Tenth avenue. ckensack, Prom Prot. Joss M. A. jones “A tramp sald my bisoults were like ay ucting yequirements, ie eount on the New York policeman to Then he rises Populace is not disappointed, nn #l are immaculate; there y But tor . and yet he ate them.” “Why did he?” ¢ he wanted to moke himaelt TN fix ‘em nex’ time. rd lke a restless! @ g Gwell Dat’s de fifth PTS C47045R PPPPHSSI-FIOGIM 29990042 SLEY: ON LONG ISLAND. PSSSBSIIECIS 3405-44 Tx CAPTAIN OF THE PPLGSDID9-04-0 O6<-26- OF WESTER $ @ 2 POOR OHNGISRdE DE SPECIAL. DESIGN BORA STATION-HOUSE FOR We Oren us THS— TYPICAL STOCKADE A SECLUDED SPOT. OUT FLORIST Y tam like and jes’ nachally s'prise her. NEW YORK’S WESTERNIZED POLICE FORCE OF THE FUTURE, i; NEAR FUTURE WITH HIS STRING N SCvOCLS FOR HAWK-~ SHAW 9, THROUGH OUT ’ = THE =EVENING POEHLER RE EEE RHEO EE HE OME > |l- oa Ui call Swell Bam—Der's Lindy. rustle of her slerta, Pa Johnsing—Daer'e dem bors agin. oak ‘em. tn 1 kin heah de on Lindy unexpected 2, PANAING, Bh thi ) Swell Sam—Doan mention it i'm sorry shave broke ech a guod ehov oun. Watoh me eumeesenemmmenenetene Lol ed RUBBERINGTON’S STORY. He Takes Just One Look at the Joys of Wedded Life. Pore OBERT RUBBERINGTON, 24, carefully measured out ® half ounce of Scoteh before he poured it iate high glass. Then languidly toying with the epoom, turned to the chief mixer and drawied: “The Good Book tells us that Job had a carpet of dalle over his cuticle from his shin bones up; that the wiped out his flocks; that the pip emptied his hennery; thet the kids all came down with colic; that Mre. Job tled @ double bow-knot in the lash of her tongue and laid on, end he never got @ grouch. But let me put you on, that had Job lived to-day he'd nave to pass ali hix medals up to « freters; nity of cheerful souls who live up beyond the Harlem bené. T took a few observations yesterday that bent Into my gray matter that there are certain denizens who nestle under the overakirts of this burg that could frame up thelr future from. Mr. Dore'’s Unes on the Inferno a4 chuckle till their teeth rattled. “About ten years ago Billy Puffer, an old pal of mina, fell to the soft soothingness of as charming a mass of white nees and pinknoss and fluffiness as ever cast a noose. There are five little Puffers now up along the sky-line of the Harlem honeycomb. Billy sent mo a summons yesterday to the Puffer board, and I met him in his office in one of the downtown theaven-toppers just as the lights began ee. - " guess we had better take an express,’ he st ‘as T will have to stop a few seconds at the market. he had bought a ‘ham, two chickens, a duck, three cabl four heads of lettuce, two bunches of celery, a five-pound bag of flower and a peck of potatoes we started out for the ‘E xtation. As wo passed a feed store I ventured the question that he might have overlooked a ba randa, but he smiled cheerfully and replied absently that — that was down on his Saturday order. plssit 4 “Did you ever see 'em bale cotton by hydraulic ‘presaur?” ‘Well, {f the wise one who invented that hydraulic machine | had taken a shy in on that train he'd have felt that he'd am — In-growing brain instead of a bulging dome of thought-works, But there was never a groan out cramped mass. I've got it right when I wiz that if the come pany insisted in taking them apart and stowing thelr Jeg and arms on shelves and thoir trunks in lookers they'd have grinned at the novelty, i “When they pried open the boxes they brushed us into dingy box and dropped us a hundred feet or so, when + were at last allowed to expand’ to our original shape, ‘After we had climbed six stories, after Billy had washed and dried the lunch and breakfast dishes so we could use ‘em — for dinner, after he had brewed a kettle of lacteal dope. lttle Puffer No. 5, after he had washed the faces and hay of the little Puffers Nos, $ and 4, after he had peeled the tatoes, after he had mildly reproved little Pufter No. 1 poking holes In my tall tle with « potato-masher Puffer was getting on her glad rigging). he invited me out to the corner for a cocktail. Not for a minute had he puckered a wrinkle or taken a reef in that chronic smile. “| “After two cocktails he opened up with: ‘Say, Bob, you'll never know what ft {s to live till you ¢ie up.’ “T didn’t tell him ‘to the deep, deep crypt for mine," but I took a few thought speeis and before I wended tome, in. ® four-wheeler that night T marked Job down as an impossible ‘It’ when it comes to, aming a stack of patient eaintat! = BARTON CURRIB, ODD FACTS ABOUT MATCHES, How Different People Regard Them, By G, S. Street. Bp © are all too apt to ignore the significance of: coms mon things, We use them, we fling them aside; our {imagination and our reasoning powers have no cape of them, Our minds news of the day, and then we com: While all the time near to our hand things over which we might~I say we enjoyment till doomsday. Take matches, WHERE THE LASSO cOMES INTO PLAY, PSPH PSP OdGP ODES oo * POPP PIHS OD SHoorING up» A GAMBLING HOVSE JACOBS O/SGUISED ASA OT DDPIIDIDE-S €HOSHCLI999G99 EF O93-9999O8- G9 991 > PDP APIL-GS-2 oS HHH 999999 DHS WEST. pESOSIITO S93 Some possible results of Greene's {mportation of sleuths from the “Wild and Woolly.” Ps BPELE ELD ELE LGOLDDDDEDID GID GCRGOREDOA EGE LADOOLDOLOD E4ADDODODHIRLE SL IGEGAOROEDDIOD shi-penaae ed, Mary, “Indeed, Wil, it's you" “In fact.” he tivterrupted, got as far as Glenwood, had to wa place looked the “Just get on to this one's curves and yet not playing bali, What ja it?’ “The plieber."' here. a aM pee old, a A The Prodigal’s R_eturn—By R. C. Pitzer. A Dream of Love and Home and a Strange Awakening. Unew her arms about his neck and 1 didn’t know whother they'd want me now of not,” eure that | was coming at any Lime, and then I nd seo If the ad But 1 wasn't need hd mother) know Behold this simple objest, made of wood or wax, @& may be, in its body, and with a head, a directing ini gence, made of phosphorus, or whatever it Is, nays G, Street in the Chicago Tribune. You strike tt, you light your pipe with it, and you throw it away; thet (s all. But do you through how many hands that sim; ohio} Z Ps r by Dally Story Publishing Co.) |she's a(iil Florence, dear.” Barnes--quarrelsome fellow—licked me| tinued. “You'll have to learn about the d before you use It? Do you know how many N ust aflernpon a tramp | He kissed her. “And they won't mind| when a boy—don't forget such thinaw.| farm, and I reckon that now's aa good If all the matohes in the: walked tessiy, down a dusty |my clothes?” Hut there, it’s ail right, You're all|a time ea any to begin tn,” were joined end to end, do you know how many times’ lowa lane. Winully he came with-| “Why, of course not, you foollsh boy.|dremsed up. H-m! Hepe you're not] Will left the window, and the old| the world they would stretch? No, in sight of a group of trees, whore}|tomo along, quick! We must go and| thinking of going there to-night?" | gentleman entered into a stateme: No more do I. Brocn freshness spoke eloquently of rest, |see them,” “Why, InI'd Ike to, father, if ‘arding the stock, talking in an un-|, I know one who smokes olgars of Immense alge, ¢ He fvereased his pace and was soon} Mary caught his hand and half dragged! “Well, I don't know. You'd better! necessarily loud tone, Will thought, But , who prei them on als friends and wy soated on 4 shaded bank. Behind him|him to the a down the | Stay at home to-night. Barnes'll be, after all, he paid little attention to that. ¥ Bev inches unemoked and light was & pleket fence, and further back] “Oh, how changed, -| Bone to-morrow, Don't like him, but 1{ He caught a gilmpse of a face in the me nan, should he see a match wasted, Was a substantial farmhouse, palf hid-|tered, “1 didn’t know you at first, reckon we'll have to patch it up some-| bug, Could It be (rue? But, no, his| allowed to go out unused, or two used where one would don by its grove of trees, took pity on you hecause father and] tim imagination had been at fault, of courae. | done, compresses his Ips and frowns involuntarily; he “You'd better not let father catch you] “'owse, our dog, hate cramps so. Wasn't face fell, but ne was determined] Yet. that face— nothing, but the tron has entered into hig soul, Nay, t OF OF —— that tung" not to cross any of hig fether's whims,| ‘Somebody's in the parlor,” Mary an-| himself will hold a match, while several men Ught J ‘ou are Mary, are you not?” he] Mary ran into the house, and in an|eo he turned toward Nounced, “and would like to see Will] cigars, till it burns his fingers, while T would give @ his volve tembiing with re-| inatant @ white-haired old lady came to| teplying. Her brother took a sti penny box of matches to a beggar and think nothing of if) Hee ee eee rt i alee Agr turned white to the lips. ‘There are occasions when # man would give a lange ao Yes, and you are~you are’ prodiga!'s home-coming was afl that|look like my broth: You're No pay eee tion of his woridly goods for the match he has not, Lael Wil, come home again.” the brightest aptimiat could have pitying Nis forlorn look, added other way to enjay yeurvelf tp to think of euch an “Oh, Will Wil! You've come back | wished, Will was hoi and after the| haps’—with @ shy glance at her father—| right, dear; don't bo «fi i when you take a match from your well-filled box, @ on to us again! You don't w how we've! first transports were over, the quict of] “perhaps he'll let you go over after] it Went, forward with a beating] mend these simple pleasures In good falth; it ip @ missed Nou. Will!’ Heediese of the dirt,| absolute content settled down on the} @Whil Tt Nhe hall seemed of interminable! and we need all we can get.) I have found myself on & nigit jength, and when he reeched vialently, “Father doesn't want me to 60, i Mary looked at the old gentleman, who winked portentously. A ripple of amusement ran over her face. “Hello!” called Will, “here's a buggy. They might let us have our first meal alone, anythow, + Who's coming?” Mery and her fether glanced at cach other, "Oh," said the former, wthat's a new friend whom to dinner, You'll Ike her, Will as pretty-—" s " ” thundered the bere HY journey, alone in the railway carriage, unable to ing to-amoke, with @ good pipe and @ pouch full of and no match. ‘The agonized search'in every pocket, th. the ghastly certainty, the mad rebellion numbing, dull despair! You can imagine 1 Now, te there in the wide world another object eo gmail ai simple as & mateh which would cause ali that ton? eeveral stricken hours I sat, thinking, thinking of ible elvoumstance, and had I been wealthy Noam eked @ matoh of the farmhouse, Then he went to hia old Ofeman room, Untouched for four years, and shaved and dressed himself. When he came downstairs again his €ather, wilt in his feld Was pacing up and down the room, The old gentieman's face lighted up with pleasure when he caught stght of he son “WHL," he sald, “we'll forget the past, Twas hasty, my son, your father, I suppose.”’ A suile Hicker ed about the corners of his mouth for an’ infant. "Your mother and 1 got Flarence shor’ . ° rapscaliion’—dt & farmer's volote' ‘off that oF L'il let ‘Towse loose on “a oof ae Vga ate hat coe eta, wat, "de to 24 amas si . Look here, you nae 1